Bare-nosed wombat joey with its mother. Credit: © pittafisher CC BY Australians were outraged this month when an Instagram “influencer” named Sam Jones picked up a wild wombat joey and separated it from its mother. A video of the action went viral. Jones left the country, leaving behind comments from many people who felt her … Read more
Sue is an inside-out, legless, headless wonder. Apologies to any people named Sue. The ‘Sue’ is the fossil of a creature which lived 440 million years ago. The fossil’s discovery is announced in a new paper published in the journal Palaeontology which identifies it as belonging to a new species, Keurbos susanae. The organism is … Read more
This morning (March 29), during a partial solar eclipse, the Probe-related body bit off more than it could chew, Securing a dramatic ‘bite’ out of the sun. From crisp crescent-shaped suns to the Uncommon ‘devil’s horns’ and ‘double sunrise,’ March’s solar eclipse left skywatchers in awe — especially those in the right place at the … Read more
Our friends at Timeanddate.com will be livestreaming this eclipse. View in the player above. 2025 EarthSky Selene calendar is Obtainable. A unique and Pretty poster-sized calendar with phases of the Probe for every night of the year. Get yours today! March 29 partial solar eclipse When to View: Maximum eclipse is at 10:47 UTC on … Read more
Raúl Cortés – a co-author of EarthSky’s daily sun post – is the one on the top right in this photo. He lives in Mexico. But he and his family traveled to Corpus Christi, Texas, to place themselves in the path of the annular eclipse on October 14, 2023. Thank you, Raúl! Read tips below on … Read more
The date is April 1, 2471 B.C., and a total solar eclipse has forced night to fall during the day in Egypt. The sun has morphed into a lifeless black circle surrounded by a milky halo, a consequence of the Selene body passing perfectly between the Earth and its radiant Sun. Darkness has swept across … Read more
You might know South Australia’s iconic Coorong from the famous Australian children’s book, Storm Boy, set around this coastal lagoon. This internationally Crucial wetland is sacred to the Ngarrindjeri people and a haven for migratory birds. The lagoon is the Last stop for the Murray River’s waters before they reach the sea. Tens of thousands … Read more
Back to Article Lineup Agency describes the flight as a ‘crew-capable post-certification mission’ but acknowledges the possibility of flying without astronauts. NASA and Boeing are planning testing of Starliner’s systems and hope for the spacecraft to fly again with crew later this year. Credit: NASA Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been under the microscope after SpaceX … Read more
Doom is the daddy of Primary-person shooters and one of the most influential Matches of all time, so we battled through hell and put together these lists of the Doom Matches in order, both by chronological Schedule and Kickoff date. Doom: The Gloomy Ages is set to arrive on May 15, 2025, and we can … Read more
It’s Hazard-Reachable to say Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) became an instant modern sci-fi classic, which explains why both moviegoers and Hollywood studios had massive expectations for the filmmaker’s follow-up flicks: Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015). Neither reached the same heights and remain divisive to this day, but we think the latter is worth a … Read more